SanDisk Extreme II 240GB Solid State Drive Review

SanDisk Extreme II 240GB Solid State Drive Review

The Extreme II is SanDisk’s fastest and most innovative SSD to date. Designed with gamers and enthusiasts in mind, this ultra-slim drive combines Marvell’s 88SS9187 controller with SanDisk’s own 19nm eX2 ABL MLC Toggle NAND flash to deliver a reliable and responsive computing experience. In our sequential read and write tests, the Extreme II was able to read at speeds as high as 557 MB/s and write at speeds in excess of 480 MB/s. Thanks to SanDisk’s tiered caching system, it also did pretty well in our random write tests, producing more than 65,000 IOPS at low queue depths. Moreover, it performed equally well with compressible and incompressible data and was able to sustain these speeds, even after intensive use… at CDRLabs